Enigma, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Enigma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31749. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Enigma quadrangle. 1,058 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresEnigma fell from 1,278 to 1,058 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,278 | |
| 2020 | 1,058 | -220 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Enigma quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
7 photographs, 1977Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A, 1977. Library of Congress
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress
Stanley, David, 1942-, 1977. Library of Congress
Adler, Thomas A, 1977. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
250 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Enigma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 862 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 29 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 171 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BERRIEN014 |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BERRIEN013 |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BERRIEN-006 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enigma in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $8,000 | Multiple trees and power lines were blown down. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $5,000 | There were numerous trees and power lines down across the northern end of Berrien county. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $5,000 | Power poles were snapped and a tractor trailer tipped over in the media of Highway 82 near Enigma. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $5,000 | Multiple trees and power lines were blown down in the northern part of Berrien county. |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $5,000 | Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds along U.S. Highway 82. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $3,000 | Berrien county 911 dispatch reported several trees down in the Enigma area. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $2,500 | Multiple trees were blown down in the northwest portion of Berrien county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $2,000 | A tree and power lines were blown down at 255 Whitley Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $2,000 | A power line was blown down at Harris St and Highway 82. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $2,000 | Trees were blown down onto power lines near Enigma. |
| December 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in the Enigma area. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | $1,000 | A couple of trees were blown down along State Highway 125 in northwest Berrien County. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | A power line was blown down along Hall Whitley Road. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | A tree was blown down at North Highway 125 at Vanceville. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | A 4 inch diameter tree branch was blown down onto Highway 82. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | Trees were blown down throughout Berrien county. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | There were several reports of trees down in Berrien county. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | A tree was blown down onto Railroad Street in Enigma. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Enigma | - | A tree was blown down onto Brookfield Turner Church Road. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Enigma | - | Flash flooding occurred across northern Berrien county. Hobbs Walker Road and Fire Tower Road were closed in Enigma due to flash flooding, and Highway 82 was closed from eastern Tift county extending all the way to Alapaha. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Enigma | - | Penny size hail reported by the Berrien County EMA. |
| April 1997 | Hail | Enigma | - | Hail was reported by county Emergency Managament. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Enigma | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alapaha | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Gladys | 6.2 miles | 8 | |
| Glory | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Cottle | 14.6 miles | 8 | |
| Nashville | 14.8 miles | 8 | |
| Weber | 15.7 miles | 8 | |
| Bannockburn | 16.9 miles | 8 | |
| Allenville | 20.5 miles | 8 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Enigma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2103595 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 313955. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




